Don't miss night 5 of VIDEO CAPITAL OF THE WORLD: 45 YEARS OF EZTV IN LA, SudZall Does it All! 45th Anniversary Screening, presented by Hollywood Entertainment and Elizabeth Purchell at Whammy!

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Founded by John Dorr in 1979, EZTV was created as an independent art space dedicated to video and, eventually, digital and performance art. Video Capital of the World is a weeklong screening and performance series honoring the diverse range of artists and communities that have found a home at EZTV over the first 45 years of its existence and the global influence that it has had on the development of video, digital and performance art.

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EZTV SudZall Does it All! 45th Anniversary Screening!

In 1979, a frustrated aspiring filmmaker named John Dorr used a borrowed black-and-white security camera and Betamax VCR to make his first feature, SudZall Does It All!, for the low, low cost of $10. Originally written as a play, SudZall tells the story of Cordelia Coventry, an actress whose appearance in a series of laundry detergent commercials brings her fame and fortune as “America’s favorite housewife.” Can her cynical, but idealist director truly transcend the banalities of American popular culture? And what part does the Hillside Homo Hacker play in making Cordelia aware of the strange contusions that mediate between art and reality?

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Join us as we celebrate the 45th anniversary of the first public screening of SudZall Does It All!, which took place at the Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art on March 28th, 1980. This program will also feature the concluding episode of Ken Camp’s wicked gay soap opera satire As the World Burns and some other surprises. (Episode 1 plays at Brain Dead Studios on 3/25 and Episode 2 plays at Whammy! on 3/26)

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dir. John Dorr, 1979

United States, digital projection

74 min

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7:30 PM DOORS

8:00 PM SCREENING

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Co-presented by T.A.P.E. - a Los Angeles based 501(c)3 nonprofit dedicated to facilitating support for analog media through free digitizing, education, hands-on training, equipment rentals and volunteer opportunities. Teach, archive, preserve, exhibit.